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Title: Confessions of a Jewish Skeptic Author: Sarahbeth Caplin Genre: Spiritual Memoir Release Date: May 20, 2016 For the first time since converting to Christianity several years ago, I was forced to reconsider what Judaism meant to me after my failed attempt at seminary, and after my father died on the eve of Rosh Hashanah. This is not a story about finding God, but about what happens when doubt threatens to break the faith of your own choosing - and how one seeker chooses to confront questions that don't have easy answers, if any answers at all. I feel safer by living on the fringes of faith, where grace and humility are clearer to me than ever before. For now, this is the safest place to be. It's messy, it's sloppy, it's anything but organized. But I'm learning to make it a home. If I look back on my life from a psychologist’s perspective, it makes sense why Christianity appealed t...

Title: Sorting Myself: a collection of poetry Author: Sarahbeth Caplin Release Date: Jan 1, 2014 Find on Goodreads A young girl exploring her place in the world attempts to slip into the identity of a saint. A woman bruised by rape culture rewrites her identity. A devoted skeptic experiences genuine conviction. These scenarios and more are the focus of Sorting Myself: a testament to the human experience. Amazon Pandoro What if the gender roles were reversed, and suddenly,  the world was no longer a safe place for men? What if a male stranger should fear me on the streets at night, the New Female Predator, and his gut instinct was to gird his balls like women do with their attractiveness, so as not to make himself a target? What if men were taught that Fear is the new Sexy, that involuntary arousal is code for "Yes Please," and his gender alone is his own personal Armageddon?   What if it had been a man who opened Pandora...